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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA/SRE in Silicon Valley. I've been engineering for over 20 years for companies like eBay, Netflix, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.
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I am available for MySQL/Postgres DBA/SRE/Security work in Silicon Valley or remote. Click here to contact me.
I am a MariaDB/MySQL code contributor and Perl CPAN author. Check out my github. My most recent project is cassandra-top.
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Daily Archives: October 28, 2017
Linux zero filesystem bash script
This is a short linux bash script I wrote that’s adequate for zero’ing a filesystem for on-premise server storage. Note that the only “secure erase” is to destroy the physical drive because of various internal disk-level caches. 😐 To do … Continue reading
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